Maintenance Electrician

Maintenance Electrician
Based in Bucks/Beds/Oxon

Salary: £39,600
Shifts: Permanent late shift, 3pm to 11pm – Monday to Friday

Due to continued growth we currently have an opportunity for two Maintenance Electricians to join our team.

Main purpose:
To provide hands-on technical assistance not exclusively of an electrical nature in the maintenance, installation, commissioning, fault finding and de-commissioning of plant and equipment.

Key Responsibilities:

– Provide rapid technical assistance in the resolution of equipment and plant malfunctions, carry out fault-finding repairs and refurbishments as necessary.
– Develop and refine local operating procedures to maximise efficiency and minimise waste (scrap, re-work and unplanned inspection).
– Train operators in the safe operation of equipment and promote up-skilling.
– Develop and maintain process and plant efficiency and utilisation measures to use as a tool for continuous improvement.
– Continuously strive to eliminate and reduce waste of any kind within the manufacturing process, scrap, re-work and consumables.
– Develop and implement planned maintenance of jigs, fixtures, plant and other equipment to minimise efficiency losses to production whilst carefully controlling costs.
– Assist in the integration of new plant and equipment into the production environment.
– Set and strive to improve housekeeping standards through the use of the 5S approach.

Experience and Qualifications:

– Time served apprenticeship with the relevant C & G Electrical qualification plus 17th edition for relevant engineering degree, HNC or HND.
– Previous experience of working in a fast paced manufacturing environment.
– Excellent PC skills including Microsoft Word and Excel.
– Experience of PLC programming and fault finding.
– Ability to manage projects in a manufacturing environment.
– Experience of robotic programming desirable.
– Excellent communication skills.
– Demonstrable track record of problem solving.
– Able to use own initiative to effectively manage and prioritise workload.
– Able to work inclusively in a team environment.

Key measures:

– Quality Fault finding and response time.
– Cost Plant operational availability and overall equipment effectiveness.
– Delivery Preventative maintenance plan.
– People Up-skilling levels.
– Health & safety Achievement against audits.
– Housekeeping Set goals and monitor achievements using 5S methodology.